Enchiridion

The Enchiridion or Handbook of Epictetus is a short manual of Stoic ethical advice compiled by Arrian, a 2nd-century disciple of the Greek philosopher Epictetus. Although the content is mostly derived from the Discourses of Epictetus, it is not a summary of the Discourses but rather a compilation of practical precepts. Eschewing metaphysics, Arrian focuses his attention on Epictetus's work applying philosophy to daily life. Thus, the book is a manual to show the way to achieve mental freedom and happiness in all circumstances. The Enchiridion was well-known in the ancient world, and in the medieval period, it was specially adapted for use in Greek-speaking monasteries. In the 15th century it was translated into Latin, and then, with the advent of printing, into multiple European languages. It reached the height of popularity in the 17th century, in parallel with the Neo-stoicism movement.

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Eat your heart out, Dr. Phil. Though written some 2,000 years ago, this slim volume of stunningly simple, incalculably wise advice remains the best self-help manual ever published.

"...the ideas of this man furnished the themes for the piety and theology of more than a thousand years. No one possessed the "whole" Augustine, but all lived upon the fragments of his spirit from which each appropriated and understood what was "adapted" to his own wants." --Reinhold Seeberg

The Erfurt Enchiridion of 1524 is the earliest protestant hymn book. As it states, in the past many had spent “the whole day standing in the choir, shouting like the priests of Baal in unclear cries”; even “members of Collegiate Churches and Monasteries had often not understood what they sing or read”, and had “cried like the forest-donkeys to a deaf God”. The Erfurt Enchiridion aimed to change this - and was a remarkable success. It was reprinted repeatedly, its melodies were set to four-part music by Johann Sebastian Bach and others, and it became the core of many later hymn books. To enable today’s choirs to understand and sing the hymns in the Erfurt Enchiridion, we reprint the original and present for many of them Bach’s four-part settings with traditional singable English translations, thus supporting to “a continuous practice and contemplation of spiritual hymns and psalms”, as did the Erfurt Enchiridion in 1524.